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Calanoida
Sign in to saveCalanoida is an order of copepods, a group of arthropods commonly found as zooplankton. The order includes around 46 families with about 1800 species of both marine and freshwater copepods between them.
Species
カラヌス目
ORDER
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassCopepoda
- OrderCalanoida
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,442
- With media
- 645
- Collections
- UAN, YPM
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
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- Calanoida
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- Category:Calanoida
- taxon common name
- Calanoid copepods
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Calanoida is an order of copepods, a group of arthropods commonly found as zooplankton. The order includes around 46 families with about 1800 species of both marine and freshwater copepods between them.
== Description == Calanoids can be distinguished from other planktonic copepods by having first antennae at least half the length of the body and biramous second antennae. However, their most distinctive anatomical trait is the presence of a joint between the fifth and sixth body segments. The largest specimens reach long, but most do not exceed long.
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